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Yes! I've HAD that conversation!! Or my personal favorite, the "I want up *scream* put me down *scream* why'd you put me down I want up *scream* I hate you put me down *scream*" and so on and so forth. THAT conversation is SUPER fun!

My 15mths old toddler does that too! He went 'there there there' pointing to the things he wanted, then uses his hand to swat off the things we passed to him (which clearly are not the things he wanted) until we finally managed to get what he wanted and he will keep quiet and go on staring at what he wanted... ;p

Okay...I only just now realized that our babies have the same name!! How old is he? My Xander is 15 months and yes I know JUST WHAT you speak of. My youngest is very different than the oldest and his frustration at his inability to full communicate is WAY more vocal. Drives me bananas and sends me into laughing hysterics at the same time.

What a GREAT post given the story writing title you chose! I thought when my daughter started talking more life would get easier on the communication front, and it did, I now know exactly what she wants. Problem is, when I say she can't have goldfish for breakfast we still get the meltdown....:-)

There will continue to be misunderstandings. My 8 year old daughter told me the other day that I looked as "old as Christina Aguilera." Which I took to be a huge compliment as Ms. Aguilera is QUITE a bit younger than I am.

But what she meant was that Christina was looking very old and haggard in the grocery-store tabloid cover.

I am SO glad I'm not alone. My first child was off-the-charts advanced verbally and was in two-word sentences by 15 months. My second was severely speech delayed. So I don't even know what normal is. To which I say, "Ba!" Oh - the kid can say "umbrella" but not cracker. The eff??

Oh wow, if you could decipher toddlerease, you'd make a mint! I've had that conversation, I've seen other mommies have that conversation! You are so right! This is why baby sign language has taken off. Of course, I didn't have the energy left over to do any of that.

My kids used twinspeak (made up language of their own) as well. It was CRAZY until they learned to talk. And now that they're three and a half, we STILL have days like the one you described!

Ahhhh yes. That is SO frustrating. We are pretty luck. My Hubs is deaf and I am an interpreter so we have had the advantage of our children signing which seems to help out some. Except with my last one...he prefers the point and scream method. VERY frustrating!!Good luck with that one!!